Excerpt from The Technic of Mechanical Drafting: A Practical Guide to Neat, Correct and Legible Drawing IN the following pages the writer has endeavored to give to the busy draftsman a thoroughly practical, common-sense guide to good mechanical drafting. N o attention whatever has been paid to the mathematics involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.